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People can do whatever they want if they just set their heart to it, and just never give up, and just go out there and do it.

Bethany Hamilton

Your looks do not define who you are.
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Define Inspirational Looks
I could never have embraced this many people with two arms.
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Arms People Two
I believe in Jesus Christ, and I believe He gave me the passion and determination to continue surfing. You fall off the horse, and you get back on. I had to go for it.
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Determination Horse Jesus
Being able to turn to Jesus after the shark attack kept me alive.
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Inspirational Jesus Sharks
I enjoy hanging out with friends, going on hikes and playing tennis. I also enjoy Bible study and making dinners. I have a pretty mellow life away from the water.
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Dinner Tennis Water
God created the heavens and the earth, the oceans and the waves for our enjoyment. Surfing is just my way of worshipping Him.
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Heaven Ocean Surfing
Surfing for me is more than my lifestyle; it’s my passion, my love and it’s a part of me.
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Lifestyle Passion Surfing
I don’t know how long I’ll be competing but I’ll always be surfing. I’ll be surfing until I’m old.
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Competing Long Surfing
To lose your everyday life of surfing and being creative on waves, enjoying the ocean – that’s scary to me. It was essential to at least try surfing again and get out there and see how it went.
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Creative Ocean Scary
My strength came from my relationship with Christ and from the love and encouragement of my family and friends.
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Christ Encouragement Family Friends
Surfing is very special and unique. It’s really hard to explain unless you’ve tried it. It’s being out in the ocean in the sun, the water on your skin, and the adrenalin rush when you catch a wave. You have to be creative so it’s like an art form in a way.
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Art Ocean Unique
Love is bigger then a tsunami, stronger then any fear.
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Inspirational Love Stronger
Being creative on the waves is challenging, but we each create art in our own way.
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Art Creative Inspirational
Life is a lot like surfing… When you get caught in the impact zone, you’ve got to just get back up. Because you never know what may be over the next wave.
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Impact May Surfing
We all need that extra friend outside of our immediate family to talk about that extra stuff you wouldn’t normally talk to your parents about.
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Needs Parent Stuff
I don’t really want people looking to me for inspiration. I just want to be a sign along the way that points toward Heaven.
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Heaven Inspiration People
Love is bigger than any tidal wave or fear.
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Love Surfer Wave
The author describes how impressed she was with the detailed storyboards that outlined her movie – “not just sketches, but real art”. She then describes a Hawaiian sunset as, “God painting His storyboard on the sky”.
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Art Nature Real
It’s been amazing to touch people’s lives.
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Inspirational Life People
My only real fear was that I would not be able to surf again because I was concerned that I would not physically be able to do it. I knew that if I wasn’t able to surf then my life would really change.
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Inspirational Real
The paramedic whispered in my ear ‘God will never leave you or forsake you.’
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Ears God Inspirational Will
Losing an arm is kinda lame at one point, but at the same time, so much good has come out of it.
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Arms Lame Losing
I guess I just like to challenge myself and push myself harder to do things that I dont think I can, to do things that other people do not think I can. It pushes me. I push my own personal limits.
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Challenges People Thinking
I’m a surfer at heart. Both my parents moved to Hawaii in the 1970s, where they met and became Christians. Then they taught me and my two brothers how to love the Lord – and how to surf!
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Brother Christian Heart
I can’t change it, That was God’s plan for my life and I’m going to go with it.
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Disability God Plan Positivity
Besides surfing, I play tennis, volleyball, I swim, I run hills, or I do high-intensity, high-interval workouts. I’m up at 5 A.M. every day.
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Running Volleyball Workout
There’s no such thing as a handicap – it’s all in your head
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Handicaps Head Thing

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